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Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin explained that he agreed with Sheikh Al-Qaradawi’s fatwa that allows non-Muslim women who have converted to Islam to stay with their still non-Muslim husbands. He said that fatwas that make people afraid of converting to Islam should not be issued and that converting to...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Seven Coptic lawyers field a lawsuit against the Minister of Interior to oblige him to register the uniform of Coptic Orthodox clergymen and to consider wearing it by anyone but a priest or a monk a crime.
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
It is written in the Bible that Jesus Christ’s hands and feet were pierced. The picture of the crucifixion, which the church agrees upon, shows Jesus pierced in the hands. But Bishop Bishoi introduced another picture that showed Jesus pierced in the wrists-which caused great confusion among many...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Five lawsuits were brought by and against Priest Salib Matta Saweris because of crossing out his name from the list of the candidates for the labor seat in Al-Mahmasha district. Although the court’s sentences in the five cases were in his interest, nothing was implemented; the elections ran and...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The court set August 15, 2001 for examining the lawsuit filed by Al-Midan against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi because of her insistence on defaming the paper and accusing it of misinterpreting an interview it ran with her.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 24, 2001
The head of the Labor Party said that the Brotherhood does not need the party now as they have 17 representatives in Parliament. He added that the party bridged the gap between the Brotherhood and the other parties. The mistakes of the Brotherhood made the party what it is now. He denied...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The Palestinian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah was accused of defaming Islam by using the Invocation [i.e. saying in the name of... which is associated in people’s minds with "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful"] as a title for his recent anthology, "In the Name of the Mother, the Son,"...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid participated in the anti-racism conference Cairo Center for Human Rights held in Egypt. He talked about Islamophobia, Europe’s perception of Islam, globalization and Huntington’s theories about the clash between civilizations.
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
At a Friday preaching, the preacher was asking God to destroy the Americans and the Jews, saying that apostasy and deviance from the right path are the reasons for the political crisis in the Middle East. The author believes that this man is an example of the preachers who mix religion with...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Sheikh Amr Khalid is attacked for being an AUC graduate and not a specialist in religion and for being a young preacher, the majority of whose audience are teenagers. The author believes that being young is not a point against him as he has a talent for preaching. He is using a language that suits...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.